Building Clients' Self Esteem

Course

In Uckfield

£ 125 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Workshop

  • Location

    Uckfield

  • Duration

    1 Day

Learn how to improve self esteem in very damaged clients with complex problems, learn which problems are due to clients' self esteem being too high !&.and its implications for practice, Identify when to build clients' self esteem by helping them to think more positively and when not to

Facilities

Location

Start date

Uckfield (East Sussex)
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P.O. Box 254, TN22 9BN

Start date

On request

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Paul Grantham

Paul Grantham

Clinical Psychologist

Course programme

Building clients' self esteem

A practical one day workshop on a NEW therapeutic approach to self-esteem. Course's main learning points:

  • How to improve self esteem in very damaged clients with complex problems
  • Numerous worksheets and checklists to use with your clients to build their self esteem
  • A demonstration of three specific cognitive techniques to build self esteem
  • Learn which problems are due to clients' self esteem being too high !....and its implications for practice
  • Building self esteem using non-verbal interventions
  • Find out how to make goal setting work with clients more effective
  • Why positive feedback does not always build self esteem ....and what to do to change it
  • Identify when to build clients' self esteem by helping them to think more positively and when not to !
  • Help clients to build and use their social support networks to build their self esteem

Course Outline:

  • 09.30 Registration & refreshments
  • 10.00 What exactly is self esteem and what role does it play in peoples problems.

The evidence base for low self esteem as a causal factor. How addressing low self esteem can have an impact on underlying problems. Unhelpful high self esteem. Areas where Its contributes to problem formation. Cultural attitudes towards self esteem. The efficacy/ self worth distinction and its practical implications. How we maybe trying to build clients' self esteem in the wrong way. Gender differences on self esteem and its implications for self esteem building work.

  • 11.15 Refreshments
  • 11.30 What leads people to develop healthy high self esteem and how can we use it to help our clients
  • 12.00 Five key sources of self esteem and how to decide on which you need to focus on with your clients:
    Self Efficacy, Positive Cognitions, Self Nurturing, Support & Help, & The Use Of Feedback
  • 12.30 Developing Clients' Self Efficacy

The use of positive role models in helping clients. Problem solving skills as a protective technique for clients. Goal setting and self esteem. Why goal setting often doesn't work and how it can be made more effective. Increasing clients' ability to influence and the role of assertiveness training.

  • 13.00 Lunch break
  • 14.00 Positive Cognitions

The role of negative thinking in low self esteem. The role of CBT in raising self esteem. A protocol for assessing your clients' negative beliefs and thinking. Demonstration of three simple cognitive techniques for raising clients' self esteem.

  • 14.50 Raising Self Esteem Through Self Nurturing

Body maintenance vs. body enhancement as methods of raising self esteem. Case examples. The role of raising activity levels to enhance self esteem.

  • 15.15 Refreshments
  • 15.30 Social Support & Self Esteem

The role of the accepting relationships. Techniques for enlarging clients' social networks. How low self esteem prevents clients perceiving current sources of social support and how to address this. Techniques to enable clients to use their existing social networks more effectively.

  • 16.00 The use of feedback to enhance clients self esteem

Feedback and unhelpful high self esteem. A case example. Understanding what feedback really is and how to make it more effective with clients as a result.

  • 16.30 Finish

Building Clients' Self Esteem

£ 125 + VAT